Bill's Produce, the Richard Caring-backed café, restaurant and store group is to open a third site in London, on the former Zilli Fish and Zilli Café site in Soho.

The new site on Brewer Street will bring the number of restaurants operating under the Bill's name to eight. The company, run by the same people as French bistro concept Cote, is due to open its seventh site in May in Exeter.

Yesterday chef and restaurateur Aldo Zilli told the Evening Standard
he had decided to close the doors forever to his fish restaurant Zilli Fish and its neighbouring café after more than 15 years of trade. He blamed increasing rents and the growing number of restaurant chains entering the area for his decision.

The move means the chef no longer operates any restaurants in the capital - his vegetarian restaurant Zilli Green closed in 2011 with the site on Dean Street being taken over by Ducksoup
.